Bats Langley
Prometheus Sculpture at Rockefeller Center
Bats Langley is a painter, sculptor, writer, illustrator, toy designer, and a creator of many things. Mr. Langley is currently illustrating a book “The Big Five Save the Lions” by author David Issacman, of the hit Emmy Award winning Netflix show “Love on the Spectrum”, coming out by Paw Prints Press in the summer of 2026. Mr. Langley is a Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) grad. He is a regular contributor to Spider, Ladybug, Cricket, and Scholastic magazines and has been a frequently featured cover artist. Bats is the creator of GUS, and his art has been shown in galleries in New York City, Los Angeles, Boston, Hartford, Providence, Hangzhou China, and at The New Britain Museum of American Art and the United States Capitol building. Mr. Langley’s work was exhibited at the AFA Gallery in NYC and in Vegas for many years and shown alongside some of his idols: Maurice Sendak, Tim Burton, Charles Adams, Dr. Seuss and Charles Schultz. Mr. Langley is the illustrator of the picture book “Groggle’s Monster Valentine” and it’s sequel, “Groggle’s Monster Halloween”, from Sky Pony Press/Simon & Schuster, was the author/illustrator of “Alice’s Adventures in #Wonderland”, and illustrated the nonfiction biography of Jackie Kennedy titled “Jackie and the Books She Loved”, distributed by Sky Pony Press/Simon & Schuster. Bats also did the cover art for “Scary Stories to Tell on The Pod”, a podcast hosted by head Saturday Night Live writer Anna Drezen and the “Miracle Workers” and “Best Foot Forward” writer Andrew Farmer.
Today, Mr. Langley lives in a cozy, but spectacular apartment in the shadow of the Chelsea Hotel on the island of Manhattan, with his husband, Nicholas.
